By implementing these five principles of flexible assembly line design, manufacturers can pursue lean manufacturing in their current operation while also building in capability to maintain or add lean...

Manufacturing has always been a competitive sector. But the intensity of competition manufacturers faced in the 1950s pales in comparison to what industry players have to deal with today. Thanks to...

Cloud technology saw dramatic adoption in the past decade. It has seeped into all facets of business and transformed how companies carry out operations. Cloud technology delivers huge scale...

Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) represent the next step in the evolution of the assembly line. AGVs are set to transform manufacturing in the near future. As the name suggests, the operations of AGVs...

A large military aerospace center had a standalone test bench for one type of auxiliary power unit (APU). The stand was located outside of the main test center and was completely unlike all other test...

Greg Giles of RedViking Engineering spends his days figuring out better ways to measure the manufacturing process, and he says that shops large and small can benefit from some kind of manufacturing...

Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) are software solutions that connect different components and stakeholders in a manufacturing facility. It also can connect and disseminate data to the wider...

One of the world's largest helicopter companies came to us with a challenge - design and build a new kind of blade balance stand. It needed to handle blades from multiple manufacturers, have greater...